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Proud Momma!
Acrylic & ink on canvas, 36x48
$2400 (Scroll down for purchase details)
For video presentation of the below, click HERE
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Did you know orangutans share 97% of our DNA and live with their mother’s in order to bond for 6-8 years? Also, did you know a top reason orangutans are endangered is because babies are ripped away and sold as pets? The pet trade demand would not exist if humans stopped taking what is not theirs to take. 
These animals won't last the 21st century if orangutans and their offspring continue dying or being hunted.
As a regular consumer we can all help in a big way by being aware of: Being mindful of our paper consumption and when we purchase food, cosmetics or other products as if they contain unsustainable palm oil, we are continuing to put these guys at risk of peril. Why? Rainforests in Malaysia and other areas are continuously being cleared/deforested to plant more and more fields of palms and trees to make paper and pulp, depleting critical habitats and endangering hundreds of species including orangutans.  
 
There are approximately 110 thousand left in the wild and 2-3 thousand are killed each year.
 
 Acts of repetition and patterning are continuous during my creative journey. They help keep me centered and gain a sense of calm amidst current world chaos.
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In this piece it manifests through meticulous and purposefully drawn, symbols mixed with binary code (ones and zeroes) clustered, repetitive and tightly organized. These represent noise and chaos. Part of that noise involves how present day tech consumption filters or even replaces so much of our real life experience with the actual world because the physical world is disappearing. Putting this noise into some sense of organization is satisfying and centering, and perhaps my nostalgia for how life was before technology comes into play and is part of the reason I am so sensitive to present day life on this planet.

Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and Save the Orangutan
 Have partnered to conserve the orangutan species.
 
Click HERE to get up to date info, most recent births, etc

The below video was shared by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. It is full of reality and also plenty of hope. See to the end.

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